Don’t just sit there In His
Word
What do you do with what
you learn about each day when you read the Word? What do you do with the words
the preacher preached on Sunday?
Do you just sit there with the information you have received?
Or do you pray about what you have learned in His Word? If so; what
happens when you start to pray?
The word of God tells us to
walk in the Spirit, that means that we should live life knowing God is with us
and follow the response of ‘wwJd’ in our daily lives.
Why do I think we need to
have a response, or to do something? Through out the Word of God we find many
people whom God gave a position to be used; Esther, Moses, Noah, Jonah, Paul,
Peter, to name a few. God places us in the place He wants to use us, our job is
to walk in the work He has given us.
But first; we need to get
ready in the Word! We need to read our Bibles and pray, study it out and know
what is in there so that we can walk it out in our daily lives.
When Jesus was walking the
earth, about to be crucified even, He told his Apostles some important things. He told them that things happen for a reason,
even things we don’t like.
Jesus prepared them for a
time when people would be against them instead of honoring them because they
were in His presence; they would instead seek to kill them because of it. He
warned them so that they would remember and be able to withstand the evil one
to be prepared and ready spiritually not just physically.
He prepares us today too,
God’s word tells us to be prepared with truth, and the Gospel of peace, full of
faith and hope we can know that God is with us in whatever we are going through
and if we keep praying even when we do not know what to pray God will be with us
and protect us. He is the righteousness in us after all, the Breastplate--
which is our protector. He tells us that with Him we can stand against anything
that is against us and not allow it to drag us down. We do not need to allow
other peoples choices, or actions to annoy us to the point of anger, we can
stand up and remember who we are in Christ!
We wont know all of this if
we do not first read it in our Bible, or learn it in a Bible study hearing the
Word of God, and praying.
We need to do more than sit
there in church walking through the motions playing the roll of Christian.
Stand therefore, having girded your waist with
truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and
having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above
all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the
fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of
salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying
always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this
end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— 19 and
for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to
make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for
which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought
to speak. Ephesians 6:14-20
The ‘wicked one’ will come against us but he
cannot prevail because we are with Christ in spirit.
Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in
your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they
shall be as 'frontlets' between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in
your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
Deuteronomy 11:18-20
We need to keep the Word of God in our hearts and
continue the life line on to our children, tell them of the good things God has
done that they too may share the goodness of God.
The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the
pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down
before me.” 8 Jesus said to
him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9 And immediately
the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. And that day was the
Sabbath. John 5: 7-9
What are we going to do with all the good stuff
God has given us? We need to share it! We need to get up and walk! We need to
tell somebody what Jesus has done for us, and we need to walk the life He has
given us to walk upright and ready, no matter what we have to give, we need to
give; in word or deed.
So he gave them his attention, expecting to
receive something from them. 6 Then Peter said,
“Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” 7 And
he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his
feet and ankle bones received strength. Acts 3:5-7
In these portions of
scripture today we find that there was an action to take place not just receiving
the healing, direction, or guidance but doing something with it. Press on
today! Go forward! Do something with what you read… in His Word!
Dear Heavenly Father, help
us today to study, to pray, to understand what Your Word tells us and to live
our lives accordingly. Help us to stand up and do something with what You have
told us, in Your name we pray, amen.
Suggested Reading
16:1-33 and Ephesians 5:1-33